单词 | goodlordship |
释义 | goodlordshipn. Now historical. Patronage or protection from a member of the local nobility or aristocracy. Cf. earlier good mastership n. at good adj., n., adv., and int. Compounds 1c. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > support > patronage > [noun] avowry1330 lordshipc1405 goodlordship1418 good mastership1428 good masterhood1445 patrocinyc1475 patronage1553 patrocine1590 Maecenatism1606 auspice1611 clientele1611 patrocination1640 favour1692 Maecenasship1816 shefstvo1937 1418 Guildhall Let.-bk. in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 75 Ye fede vs so bounteuesly with behest shewyng of your good lordship to vs. c1430 in J. B. Sheppard Christ Church Lett. (1877) 6 For in gode feith your gode Lordschip yschewed to him may do me a grete plesaunce as hit were done to my person. ?1449 M. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 236 But if ȝe haue my lord of Suffolkys godelorchyp..ye kan neuer leven jn pese wyth-owth ye haue his godelordschep. 1949 Jrnl. Econ. Hist. 9 225 In the mercantile sphere fifteenth-century Celys, relying on the ‘goodlordship’ of a landed magnate, play a social role different from that of the earlier war-speculating De la Pole. 1978 B. W. Beckingsale Thomas Cromwell v. 63 New men disturbed the patterns of goodlordship. 1996 F. Whigham Seizures of Will in Early Mod. Eng. Drama 14 Goodlordship and loyal service are experienced as naive, even degrading. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1418 |
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